Anti-Semitism in the United States, 1964 (ICPSR 7310)

This nationwide study investigated respondents' opinions on
current affairs at both the national and international levels. Issues
such as morality in the United States, approval of the United Nations,
and the positon of the United States in world affairs were explored,
as well as attitudes toward the Constitution and individual
rights. Respondents were asked about their feelings toward minority
groups such as the John Birch Society, communists, and Blacks, with
special emphasis on the Jewish minority. Respondents' beliefs about
Jews as a group, their contacts with Jews, and their feelings about
political and social rights of Jews in the United States were
probed. Past treatment of the Jewish people was also explored, and the
respondents were asked to compare Jews with other groups in the United
States on the basis of ambition, wealth, intelligence, and power. A
number of variables assessed the respondents' leisure activities,
their religious beliefs and education, and their outlooks on
life. Derived measures include indexes such as anti-Semitic beliefs,
Index of Jewish contacts, Fascism Scale, Despair Scale, Tolerance of
Cultural Diversity Index, Enlightenment Values Scale, Anomie Scale,
Political Anxiety Scale, Self-Image Scale, Libertarian Index, and
Monism Scale. Demographic data include sex, race, age, education,
income, religion, home ownership, marital status, and number of
children. The study was received from the International Data Library
and Reference Service, Survey Research Center, University of
California at Berkeley.

This nationwide study investigated respondents' opinions on
current affairs at both the national and international levels. Issues
such as morality in the United States, approval of the United Nations,
and the positon of the United States in world affairs were explored,
as well as attitudes toward the Constitution and individual
rights. Respondents were asked about their feelings toward minority
groups such as the John Birch Society, communists, and Blacks, with
special emphasis on the Jewish minority. Respondents' beliefs about
Jews as a group, their contacts with Jews, and their feelings about
political and social rights of Jews in the United States were
probed. Past treatment of the Jewish people was also explored, and the
respondents were asked to compare Jews with other groups in the United
States on the basis of ambition, wealth, intelligence, and power. A
number of variables assessed the respondents' leisure activities,
their religious beliefs and education, and their outlooks on
life. Derived measures include indexes such as anti-Semitic beliefs,
Index of Jewish contacts, Fascism Scale, Despair Scale, Tolerance of
Cultural Diversity Index, Enlightenment Values Scale, Anomie Scale,
Political Anxiety Scale, Self-Image Scale, Libertarian Index, and
Monism Scale. Demographic data include sex, race, age, education,
income, religion, home ownership, marital status, and number of
children. The study was received from the International Data Library
and Reference Service, Survey Research Center, University of
California at Berkeley.

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After the data were collected, the 61 Jewish cases
plus two additional cases were omitted from analysis, but were
retained in computation of the frequencies that are given for each
code value. These respondents are coded either "Inap." or as missing
data. The final number of cases that can be used for analysis, if
choosing not to include these respondents, is 1,913, while the total number of cases is 1,975.

This study was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago.

Methodology

Sample:
National representative sample. After the sample was
randomly drawn down to the block level, quotas were used for the final
selection of respondents to balance age and sex and to find additional
employed women.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: